Remarks Upon Alchemy and the Alchemists: Indicating a Method of Discovering the True Nature of Hermetic Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Hitchcock, Ethan Allen

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ISBN 10 : 1330249259 ISBN 13 : 9781330249253

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2016

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Alchemy was a pretended science by which gold and silver were to be made by the-transmutation of the baser metals into these substances, the agent of the transmutation being called the philosophers stone. Those who professed this Art are supposed to have been either impostors or under a delusion created by impostors and mountebanks. This opinion has found its way into works on Science, and has been stereotyped in biographical dictionaries and in encyclopaedias, large and small; and, in general, allusions to Alchemy, in histories, romances, and novels, are of but one character, and imply that the professors of the Art were either deluders or deluded, were guilty of fraud or the victims of it. It may be a hopeless task to announce a different persuasion with the expectation of superseding this deeply rooted prejudice; but the author thinks it a duty to declare the opinion he has derived from a careful reading of many alchemical volumes, and in the following remarks he has taken for his thesis the proposition that Man was the subject of Alchemy; and that the object of the Art was the perfection, or at least the improvement, of INIan.

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1330249259
• ISBN 13: 9781330249253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306